Tropical Storm Charlie (1972)
Tropical Storm Charlie peaked at 60 kt in the North Atlantic between September 19, 1972 and September 22, 1972, with a lowest pressure of 944 mb.
Track and intensity
The whole track of Tropical Storm Charlie, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1972 season in the same basin behind it, and its wind and pressure hour by hour. Every fix is in the track table below.
The storm
- Basin
- North Atlantic
- Dates
- September 19, 1972 to September 22, 1972
- Peak strength
- Tropical Storm, 60 kt (69 mph)
- Lowest pressure
- 944 mb (27.88 inHg)
- Landfall
- No; closest approach 606 km (377 mi)
- Accumulated cyclone energy
- 0.0
- Fastest the center moved
- 50 kt (58 mph)
- Identifier
- AL141972
Deaths and damage
No source this site reads publishes a machine-readable casualty or damage figure for a storm of this era. The National Hurricane Center’s season tables begin in 1995 and carry deaths and damage only from 2005 in the Atlantic and 2020 in both basins; the US Storm Events record begins in 1996.
Track
| Time (UTC) | Position | Wind | Pressure | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 19, 12:00 | 37.5N 59.5W | 25 kt | Subtropical depression | |
| Sep 19, 18:00 | 38.5N 59.3W | 30 kt | 1008 mb | Subtropical depression |
| Sep 20, 00:00 | 39.5N 59.0W | 35 kt | Subtropical storm | |
| Sep 20, 06:00 | 40.0N 57.5W | 40 kt | Subtropical storm | |
| Sep 20, 12:00 | 40.7N 54.2W | 50 kt | 1001 mb | Subtropical storm |
| Sep 20, 18:00 | 41.7N 49.8W | 50 kt | Subtropical storm | |
| Sep 21, 00:00 | 42.8N 45.4W | 55 kt | Subtropical storm | |
| Sep 21, 06:00 | 46.0N 40.0W | 60 kt | 992 mb | Extratropical |
| Sep 21, 12:00 | 49.5N 37.0W | 60 kt | 968 mb | Extratropical |
| Sep 21, 18:00 | 52.0N 36.0W | 60 kt | 944 mb | Extratropical |
| Sep 22, 00:00 | 54.0N 36.0W | 60 kt | Extratropical |
Other North Atlantic storms of 1972
- Tropical Storm AlphaNorth Atlantic · 1972
- Hurricane AgnesNorth Atlantic · 1972
- Unnamed tropical depressionNorth Atlantic · 1972
- Unnamed tropical depressionNorth Atlantic · 1972
- Unnamed tropical depressionNorth Atlantic · 1972
- Unnamed tropical depressionNorth Atlantic · 1972
- Unnamed tropical depressionNorth Atlantic · 1972
- Unnamed tropical depressionNorth Atlantic · 1972
- Unnamed tropical depressionNorth Atlantic · 1972
- Hurricane BettyNorth Atlantic · 1972
- Tropical Storm CarrieNorth Atlantic · 1972
- Unnamed tropical depressionNorth Atlantic · 1972
- Hurricane DawnNorth Atlantic · 1972
- Unnamed tropical depressionNorth Atlantic · 1972
- Unnamed tropical depressionNorth Atlantic · 1972
- Unnamed tropical depressionNorth Atlantic · 1972
- Unnamed tropical depressionNorth Atlantic · 1972
- Tropical Storm DeltaNorth Atlantic · 1972
What this means
A best track is the record a warning agency settles on after the storm, not what it said at the time: position, maximum sustained wind and central pressure every six hours, revised against every observation that came in later. Category is the Saffir-Simpson scale, which runs from Category 1 at 64 kt to Category 5 at 137 kt and reads wind only, so it says nothing about surge or rain. Accumulated cyclone energy adds up the square of the wind through the storm's life, so it counts strength and duration together.
Sources
Storm history from NOAA NCEI’s International Best Track Archive for Climate Stewardship (IBTrACS), which merges the official best track of every warning agency. Live storms, cones, watches and warnings from the National Hurricane Center and the Central Pacific Hurricane Center. Archived radar from NOAA’s Level II archive.
The National Hurricane Center has published no tropical cyclone report for this storm.